I guess the newest way to ban costumes is to use the phrase “we are people, not costumes”. That, at least, is what the PuffHo says about the outfits of Kylie Jenner and Nicky Hilton (sister of Paris), showing their Halloween costumes that depict, respectively, an Eskimo (“Inuit” to most people) and an “Indian princess.” The article, written by PuffHo Entertainment Editor Stephanie Marcus, is called “Kylie Jenner and Nicky Hilton wore some pretty offensive Halloween costumes this year“. The article’s text is indented.
I wouldn’t have even known what the costume below depicts, but Jenner’s first Instagram photo on the site labels this “Eskimo”. The PuffHo text:
Well, there’s always someone who shows up to a Halloween party in a racist or offensive costume — this year it was Kylie Jenner and Nicky Hilton.
On Saturday, Jenner shared a video of herself decked out in her “Eskimo” costume that she wore to a party on Friday night. Never mind the fact that “Eskimo” is generally considered a slur, the Inuit and Alaska Natives are real people, not costumes.
Meanwhile, Nicky Hilton apparently learned nothing from the time her sister Paris attended a Halloween party at the Playboy mansion dressed as a “sexy Indian.” The younger Hilton sister also doesn’t seem to care that Native Americans and First Nations are real people with a real culture and therfore not a costume, because she turned up to the Casamigos Tequila Halloween Party on Friday night in this:
For more racist Halloween costumes you’ll want to avoid this year, next year and all future Halloween parties, click here if you don’t have the common sense not to offend people already.
“Racist”? That seems a bit over the top to me. And if you click on the PuffHo link in the sentence above, you’ll be sent to another site showing now-verboten costumes, including a skeleton, a salacious nurse (whose costume is said to “objectify the profession”), and a hobo (forbidden because it mocks the homeless). I wasn’t aware that hobos, nurses, and skeletons (supposedly mocking those with eating disorders) were “races.”
It’ll be even worse next Halloween, mark my words.
The “we are people, not costumes” trope is an overly glib way to protect a group from “appropriation,” and could be used to cast aspersions on almost anything. (Hobos, really? Do they even exist any more?) When I wear my Indian clothes—and I rush to assure you that I mean Indian as from India, not Native American—would a resident of, say, Delhi, tell me that Indians are people, not costumes, and I’m stereotyping the entire subcontinent? (Indeed, if I were to go trick-or-treating as an adult, I’d probably put on a nice kurta pajama. But now I must get my candy other ways.)
I have to say that while I do consider some costumes offensive, as I mentioned yesterday (e.g., blackface, and perhaps Mexican banditos), there’s a group of Cultural Enforcers, like Stephanie Marcus, who sniff around everywhere calling out what they deem “offensive.” It’s almost as if they’re touting their own ideological purity by this kind of sleuthing. Such Leisure Fascists, who are constantly signaling their own virtue, annoy me.
“Leisure fascists” Good one.
From the way Marcus goes on about the costumes, you’d think Jenner and Hilton had announced a campaign to make minorities second class citizens.
Anyone dumb enough to interpret a culture or race through a costume has questionable standards of logic and sense to begin with.
Eskimo is taken to be a slur, but isn’t one.
It is the name that unites the Canadian and Greenland Inuit and the Siberian and Alakan Yupik under one umbrella term. The Inuit Circumpolar Council wanted to establish Inuit as the correct name, but itself moved to use both Inuit and Eskimo nowadays.
Eskimo comes from the Cree language, and was thought to be a derogatory term, meaning “raw-meat-eaters”. It is now believed to come from another term, which translates to “snowshoe netters”.
_______________
http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/resources/inuit-eskimo/
Thanks, good to know!
An Inuk friend of mine explained that it wasn’t offensive (at least to her and her community) because of its meaning, regardless. It is offensive because it isn’t the demonym of the people themselves.
Would your friend say it is offensive to call the Deutsche “Germans”? Moreover, as far as I’m aware there is no native word for the collective peoples of northern North America. They are made up of a bunch of individual tribes and different language groups.
I found it more than a little bit annoying that the Colville tribe claimed that the, what 10,000 year old Kennewick man was a member of the tribe and absolutely had to be buried and that scientist should just F off?
Something that old belongs to all of humanity. DNA tests eventually established that the skeleton was indigenous to N. America, but that doesn’t mean that it was a member of the ancestors of one of the modern tribes!
Agreed. At 10,000 years, he would certainly have pre-dated any recognisable precursor of any modern tribe.
cr
Yes, I think she would. Now, all that said there are *worse* insults and offenses.
Maybe Kylie Jenner’s “bad karma” from this transgression will be offset on a cosmic level against the Caitlyn Jenner costume. Is it in bad taste? Sure. And the wearer will pay the price by having to go around looking ridiculous all night in front of their friends.
Heard, but not seen until now. Uh, thanks.
But Caitlyn reportedly is ok with the joke, and that is a good thing since it was ~ the hottest selling costume this year.
If there was a potentially offensive costume it would have to be the Caitlyn one, being very specifically aimed at an individual rather than some ill-defined cultural grouping.
Even then, I’d say it was fair comment, Caitlyn invited it by being a public figure. All kudos to her, therefore, for taking it in good part.
cr
There is a silver lining here. When I am at a party, and have had a couple drinks, and they put on James Brown. No power on earth can stop me from trying (in my middle-aged-white-man way) to get on the good foot. I will even cue Maceo, loudly. Now, with all this “cultural appropriation” stuff, I am likely to be accused of such an offense. The bright side? I no longer will be the biggest horse’s ass at the party.
Know you that the Godfather of Soul absolves you your sins.
Now go forth and sin some more.
The first two trick or treaters we saw last night were a five year old ninja and a two year old skeleton. Am I supposed to deny candy to both or is the ninja OK because the kid concerned happens to be Japanese – please advise….
“Nuke the gay whales” bumper stickers are – apparently – still available. I remember these as an ironic response to another era of unbridled political correctness in the early ’80s
Yeah, I remember some of the “nuke the whales” stuff. Which at my campus was being touted by the Lyndon Larouche fans. They were wacko.
Political incorrectness makes for strange bedfellows.
“Nuke the gay baby whales for Jesus” was supposed to be the perfect bumper sticker – offending everyone.
Add “Allahu Akbar!” and you’d have it all covered. (Which reminds me of David Allan Coe getting Stevie Goodman and John Prine to add a final verse to “The Perfect Country & Western Song”.)
Maybe even through in a “Hail Hydra”.
I don’t quite understand. One day a year we can be somebody else or someTHING else. Now we have to be politically correct about it? Let’s not suck the fun out of Halloween.
Skeleton costumes are clearly mocking the soft tissue challenged.
I’m not one to do the costume thing…but, if this keeps up…next year I’ll have to dress up as an overweight sexy Indian nurse skeleton in blackface.
b&
With mukluks on your feet!d
Try the pregnant nun – is easy. Pillow slip for the head thing, sheet for the habit and stuff the pillow up the front for the foetus. never used to offend anyone when we were students, but I guess it might now
Screw it, tell ’em it’s meant to celebrate all the Sisters who are “in a family way” at the Home for Unwed Mothers.
I don’t know. I’ve seen several of these litanies of offensive costumes and I’ve never seen Christian zealot/Nun/Priest/Pope outfits listed among them, even though nun and priest costumes are very common (as I noticed in the costume store this week). I think all of those belong to the Oppressor Class whom it is acceptable, yea encouraged, to mock.
Yes I’m sure those costumes count as “punching up”, one of the most inane of the new PC jargonisms.
Definitely insane. As if there is any remotely objective definition of “up”.
Well, from where I’m sitting, in the Antipodes, ‘up’ is the opposite direction.
Excuse me, I have to go and beat up a cripple. 😉
cr
Next year – no princesses since they are mocking wealth inequality and democracy; no police or firefighters costumes, since they stereotype people who risk their lives for our safety; no witch costumes since they disrespected the Wiccan religion.
No zombie costumes because they mock the dead.d
No Frankenstein’s monster (and yes, children will be smugly told the correct title) because that is offensive people who have had organ transplants.
LOL.
Maybe Frankenstein is OK because it would require a brain transplant and medical science hasn’t yet succeeded with that though some people clearly need one.
I decided to elaborate on that and made it into a whole post: http://listofx.com/2015/11/03/10-outrageously-offensive-halloween-costumes-that-no-one-should-ever-wear-again/
Read it.
🙂
cr
Nice!
This bit from PuffHo reminds me of the worst of the tabloids. It is like they are straining for an excuse to throw poo. I almost feel sorry for the willowy celebrities who have to weather this sort of hyper-vigilance.
And skeleton costumes make fun of anorexia? Only in some overactive imaginations. Zombies have eating disorders too, you know. So where is the outrage against the Walking Dead? While we are at it, of course witch costumes are forbidden (they parody the Wickins), and ski-masked children wielding plastic chain saws are guilty of mocking the real pain caused by serial killers.
I guess I will have to eat all the Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups we normally give out next year…
You will hurt the feelings of those with peanut allergies!
Why don’t you try to be a decent human being and hand out carrot sticks instead. Everyone knows candy is a form of micro aggression against diabetics.
Those had better be wild type carrots. We all know that orange carrots are a form of agricultural imperialism perpetuated by the Dutch!
The only thing good about the article is that we know PuffHo didn’t have to pay anything for it, which reflects upon its actual worth.
In fairness, if you visit that link the skeleton costume shown has a name tag that reads “Anna Rexia”. So in that case they definitely are making an anorexia joke. It’s questionable taste, and not a very funny, but not a social crime.
The individual may be making the reference, but skeleton costumes as a class owe absolutely nothing of their origin to making fun or even referring to anorexics. For goodness’ sake, the imagery of using skeletons to represent death/dead people goes back to the middle ages at least!
Speaking as someone who will, in a few years, be dead, I find that costume highly offensive! It implicitly privileges the living over the ex-living.
cr
must disagree with you on this one; though I agree with you on most of your posts.
this feeds into the sports team controversy. As long as we allow other ethnicities to demean our own we will be not ‘people’ in our own country.
you decry blackface etc. this is just as bad, but you, along with many other European as well as some African Americans see us as literally ‘extinct’.
we are NOT and as long as others are as stupid as this blonde, we will continue to point out stupidity and racism
“other ethnicities to demean our own we will be not ‘people’ in our own country. ”
None of these things described are demeaning; if anything, they are glorifications. They take the coolest things we know about a culture and leave out the worst.
The more I see this type of thing the more I, well for example I know officially support the Washington redskins name. If this stuff keeps getting worse I might start flying the confederate flag out from, no OK I wouldn’t go that far, but this is getting retarded, oops sorry I mean insane, oh wait that’s not right either, could someone help me out here? I guess silly would work, but it’s so much less satisfying.
*NOW officially support rather, and out FRONT is where I’ll fly the flag.
Remind me not to post in the future till after the coffee.
My favorite alternate name for the Washington (D.C.) NFL team, courtesy of Gregg Easterbrook (who had his own run-in with the PC authorities): The Greater Potomac Drainage Basin Indigenous Persons.
Firemen and vampyre are real people too
Cowboys, witches too. I guess ghosts aren’t real. Otherwise we’re left with superheroes and Disney princesses. But wait, what if the superhero you want to costume yourself as was a member of a sensitive racial/cultural group?
Uh, uh. Male superheros encourage unrealistic expectations of the male body form in impressionable boys. And Disney princesses objectify women and encourage stereotypes of one culture or another.
But I hear that Donald Trump costumes were hot this year. And it is still ok to ‘punch up’. Or is it?
They’ll have to pry my cold, dead fingers out of his bright orange comb-over.
“Otherwise we’re left with superheroes and Disney princesses.”
Superheroes are offensive because they devalues those without the mesomorphic body types.
Princesses are sexist and elitist.
Ghosts suggest that our souls don’t go to heaven or hell upon death.
mode snark = on
Ms. Jenner should have used pole dancer or exotic dancer and not eskimo, no one would have been the wiser.
Oh and what about skeleton decorations? And please think of the feelings of pumpkins!
mode snark = off
Pole dancers and exotic dancers are real people too.
No, actually they are members of the species Homo siliconus.
And their patrons? Homo erectus, perchance?
“Ms. Jenner should have used pole dancer or exotic dancer and not eskimo, no one would have been the wiser.”
You mean, pole dancers and exotic dancers dress as eskimos?
cr
I can recall a letter to the editor of a prominent Minnesota newspaper about 25 years ago, lamenting that a sports team had hijacked his racial legacy with their name, mascot and imagery, and worse yet, they were grinding that legacy into the mud by consistently losing. The writer’s ancestry was not native American, but Viking. It was well-executed and pretty funny.
A friend of mine went to by chaps at a horse outfit store to complete his cowboy costume. The people were angry with him that he was buying real chaps for a Halloween costume. They said: “You know real people buy these to ride horses!”
So, I guess people who ride horses will be offended by cowboy costumes.
Incidentally, Bill Maher commented about the stupid Huffington Post article as well on his Friday show. He too mentions the hobo costume. The entire New Rules is worth watching because David Spade was there and his laughing and commentary made it funnier.
I was going to mention Maher too. Spade was hilarious.
That clip was great!
I loved ?Chris Brown? as a taliban.
But then I’m always in favour of bad taste.
cr
This year, I got was three little kids in traditional store costumes, who were pushed out of the way by four by older kids- 12-12 yrs. At 8pm, I got three 14-16yrs old dressed in street clothes who didn’t even bother to say “trick or treat” or anything. I miss the days when they wore costumes.
So when does the movement for “we are people, not causes” begin? The “Liberal White Knights” that co-opt minorities for their self-righteous ranting seem to take more offense than the minorities themselves. Nicky Hilton barely looks like she’s wearing a costume as similar clothing can be bought at gift shops and reservations across the US. Usually made by local tribes and certainly not sold exclusivity to Native Americans. I also don’t see how Kylie Jenner is denigrating the Inuit. That is certainly not a stereotype I’ve ever seen.
*** Yes, I do perceive the irony in the above statement.
Exactly
Case in point, white person is offended on behalf of Japanese person who thinks that the costume is a great idea:
http://m.imgur.com/gallery/wlZB0SE
Very refreshing. Thanks!
The complaint against Jenner misses the mark because she isn’t really dressed as an Eskimo/Innuit, as far as I can see. (She’d freeze to death in seconds for a start.) On Instagram she titles the picture ‘Snow Princess’.
With the Hilton one, I don’t see why we should think that’s OK, seeing as most of us will agree that blackface is not OK. What’s the difference?
“With the Hilton one, I don’t see why we should think that’s OK, seeing as most of us will agree that blackface is not OK. What’s the difference?”
First of all painting your face black in order to appear as though you are a black person. All Hilton is portraying is indian culture. I doubt anyone would complain about someone being inappropriate if they dressed up as minstrel performer minus the black face.
I guess it depends if people are bothered by it, and perceive that they’re being made fun of, or being treated disrespectfully at least. I guess it might seem a bit of a kick in the teeth that some of the ancestors of the people who subjugated your ancestors are now treating your culture as just another fancy dress option.
Because it *is* fashion.
And blackface was originally intended, by actual southern racists, to explicitly mock and demean black folk, to portray them as stupid animals.
Fancy dress option = a celebration of art.
Are we supposed to avoid every possible dress option because somebody, somewhere in the world, once used it as a sacred symbol or an insult?
‘Dear oppressed minority, not everything is about you’.
A few months ago I happened to see the end of some Indian comedy movie (that’s Indian as in Bollywood), and when the credits came up there was the legend “Swastik Productions” and a swastika. A little startling, but the swastika is a traditional Hindu good-luck symbol.
cr
What puzzles me is why the natives around here dress up as Europeans every day. What’s up with that?
It’s ok because they’re “punching up.” The real difficulty is intra-Europe conflict. If a Belgian makes fun of a Spaniard and a Spaniard makes fun of a Belgian, which one is ok and which one is a disgusting racist?
I paraded around in my everyday clothes and everyone was offended. But this being England they were too polite to mention it.
I’ll take the salacious nurse.
The costume? “You can try that on in our fitting room, Mr. Lyons. Let us know if you need any assistance with the zippers and snaps.”
“Eskimo” is only a word associated with discrimination like “Negro” or “Oriental” because it was coined by groups during a period of discrimination.
As Wikipedia points out, “While since the late 20th century, numerous indigenous people rejected the use of the term “Eskimo” as offensive, because it was used by people who discriminated against them, in its linguistic origins the word did not have an offensive meaning”.
Is appropriation always mockery??
I suspect Native American costumes rose in popularity among girls after the movie “Pocahantas” in which case wearing them is more of a tribute than an appropriation.
No one wearing pointed ears on Hallowe’en is mocking Star Trek or Tolkien.
One can always come as someone you DO mean to mock- I remember a period in which Richard Nixon masks sold well during Hallowe’en.
For myself, I prefer to attend Hallowe’en parties in costume based on some pun or other. In 2005, I came to a party in ordinary clothes stating I was a clone from the horror film “The Island”, and in 2001 I had a placard hanging around my neck with a Florida ballot which pictures hanging from it of various celebrities named Chad, and a map of the country of Chad. I was of course the dangling chads. There was also the year of the cereal killer.
What’s with apostrophe in Halloween (Hallowe’en)? I’ve never seen that before yesterday, but I’ve seen it a lot in the past two days.
Does Wikipedia not work on your computer?
No, it doesn’t. But thanks for the snark. It was getting a little too polite and civilized in here.
Sorry, I should have put a smiley there – didn’t mean to be rude. Where I come from it is still usually spelled with an apostrophe.
I saw a skeleton costume locally with the description tag “Anna Rexia,” so I can understand how a skeleton costume can be potentially offensive, no way in Hell was I buying that costume for my wife.
Seeing something like this from the puffho just reminds me that this age of modern communication does really cause too much communication.
Do they really think this kind of article is worth anything? Do you always have to say it, even if it makes no sense, like calling the clothing racist? Examining other people’s costumes for offense and criticism? Sometimes with all this space to throw stuff out there it would be best to just shut up. We could all learn to do a bit more of that.
Agree…at least no one got paid for this bit of trifle.
I rather suspect their main goal was coming up with a reason to post pics of a couple of comely celebrities.
Yes. Since this was by the Entertainment Editor, you are probably right on that. However, it does not improve the outcome a bit. I guess I was not entertained.
You’re probably not their target demographic.
Correct….that demographic would be nursing homes, assisted living, any place the wilds ones hang out.
I went trick-or-treating with my kids yesterday and dressed up in a yellow HazMat suit depicting Walter White’s character from Breaking Bad. I apologize to all chemists and teachers for my remarkable error in judgment and any offense it may have caused. Being a chemist is a career, not a costume.
But you were dressed as an actor playing a chemist. You should be apologizing to actors (acting’s a career, not a costume); the actor who played Walter White should be apologizing to chemists and teachers.
Now apologize to the meth dealers for failing to apologize to them in the first place.
Relevant:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/44/5e/b0/445eb00a48bf5b1c61feac428c7b9e0c.jpg
Brilliant!
Hey, did nobody notice that I put that cat poster in the Caturday Felid post yesterday????
Don’t worry Jerry, I noticed. 🙂
It’s virtue signalling, as pointed out by James Bartholomew here:
new.spectator.co.uk/2015/04/hating-the-daily-mail-is-a-substitute-for-doing-good/
And it’s spread by cry-bullies, as described by Julie Burchill in the first thing she’s written for 30 years that had any substance to it:
blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/04/meet-the-cry-bully-a-hideous-hybrid-of-victim-and-victor/
Virtue signalling, cry-bullies. I think these memes need sharing, in view of the speed of communication these days and our daily experience of them. Easy short-hand with which to dismiss them.
How often do I sigh at seeing some young puritan parading their censorious, vacuous and banal moral purity? x
It is ironic that we have thrown off the shackles of the old puritanism only to embrace another kind. I grew up with traditional moral puritans. I’ve totally had my fill of the odious type.
I did, and it was wonderful!
It offends me that Kylie Jenner and Nicky Hilton are famous for being famous, without having to work in any meaningful way, because they happen to have been born into wealthy famous families. Their glamour and fame erase the lives of those of us who have to get an education and work for a living. Their Instagram photos make a mockery of my culture of gainfully employed persons.
Seriously, though, why do either of these women get any media attention? Reality television personality? Socialite? Self-proclaimed fashion designer? More like parasites, IMO.
Mockers gonna mock!
As a Canadian I hereby approve of all “Canadian” costumes and stereotypes. Please dress as a half hockey player half mountie licking maple syrup off a moose whilst mockingly saying “sooooory” and “eh”. I will laugh until the cows come home.
South Park depicts all Canadian as having their entire head split in half each time they talk and the wheels on all of our cars are square. Hilarious. We are different and funny.
I’ve said all this before and been told, “easy for you to say, you’re white.” Only then was I offended.
My favourite Canadian portrayal is The Simpsons which had several Canadian writers.
One was when Bart and the boys took a rental car for a road trip. There was a scene with a Canadian family in a car and the kids acting up. The father says, “that’s it, back to Winnipeg.” Another (which I actually quote a lot) is when Bart has to go in a remedial class and their is a Canadian kid there who says, “I moved here from Canada and they think I’m slow, eh.”
Oops. I goofed the “their” because I’m a little slow, eh.
Speaking of national stereotypes (and Frank Bath’s post at #20 reminded me), as a Englishman I get a warm patriotic glow whenever I hear that stirring anthem ‘Being British’ performed by the cast of ‘Who Dares Wins’. It brings a tear to my eye.
Umm, link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Qm8uj0H88
cr
So many offensive things happening in our world
and Halloween costumes get this much attention?
Bullfeathers and hockey pucks .
Surely, if everything is offensive, then nothing is?
Sounds like an I-Ching appropriation …
I used to follow the Tumblr blog of a young Finnish SWJ. Just to take some taste of that subculture. I stopped my masochistic adventure when she attacked cosplayers who dressed as characters from Japanese cartoons (anime) and called them racist, because they dared to cosplay as a member of a different race. So I concluded she is (and they are) total nuts and I had enough exposure.
“Total nuts” = ableist!!!
:p
It strikes me after reading a lot of the criticisms that some people equate dressing up as something with making fun of something.
While this may be sometimes true, often you dress up as something you admire. I think most of us have a positive image of the stereotypes Eskimo, American Indian, and even hobo (kindly old men who ride trains and camp out.)
Personally I find the whole concept of Halloween offensive, especially in our upside down cultural geography, where Christmas is in summer, Halloween is in spring and Easter is in autumn. It has been “appropriated” from American culture by commerce to flog off more junk and junk food, having already been “appropriated” from Mediterranean Catholic culture and so forth into prehistory.
Aside from all that, I cant see that Nicky Hilton’s costume is identifiable with any Native American clothing. The dress is totally wrong, the necklace might be South African (Xhosa?) and the bodice decoration could perhaps be Norwegian or Polish inspiration.
In fact, “appropriation” is what every human culture has done since there was such a thing as human culture.
I was just reading a piece on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) website about this. Check out the unbelievably fascist, Big Brother poster from Wesleyan, as well as the similar reminder at Rhodes College from the–get this–Social Regulations Council.
Racism was a perfectly good word that was suitably powerful for describing a problem. It’s disappointing to see the word misused (insensitive might be a more appropriate terms for using costumes) in such a way that it waters down the definition. Racism is really bad, and the power of the word for condemning is in related to that badness.
How did “hobo” get confused with the homeless? I associate that term with migrant workers from the early decades of the last century — the ones John Steinbeck called “the last free men,” the ones Woody Guthrie took inspiration from while riding the rails during the Dust Bowl.
Does this mean Miles Davis’s beautiful tune “Freddie Freeloader” is verboten now too?
And on the subject of hobos, Ken, what I think is the best pop lyric ever written. Gentle on my mind, by John Hartford, sung here by him and Glen Campbell. x
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_heX9IawYE&list=RDm_heX9IawYE
Yep. The lyrics are Dylanesque.
For fucks sake! Get a life, PuffHo!
You could see these costumes as a celebration of cultural diversity. (I remember passing through Wellington, NZ when the Rugby Sevens final had just finished. I loathe rugby, but I now have a weakness for Sevens based entirely on the spectators – there were mariachi bands, leprechauns in green, Roman centurions, hula ‘girls’, all manner of ethnic stereotypes… it was great).
But all these censorious pillocks like PuffHo can see is that it might, conceivably, offend some hypersensitive minority.
I see it as a Rorschach test of the observer – and HuffPo’s columnist falls firmly in the puritanical authoritarian crypto-fascist group. I can just see them holding inquisitions/witch trials/McCarthy hearings. They’d feel right at home in ISIS.
[/rant]
Oooh that was naughty but I did enjoy it.
cr
Sub
I don’t imagine I’m making an observation that’s new, but this, and much of what is happening lately is a battle between reason, and rationality, and feelings. Something is offensive if someone is offended, not because there is good reason for whatever it is to be considered offensive. Given that there is almost nothing that won’t offend someone.
Be careful not to offend ghosts!
They might come cack to haunt you ….groooaaaaaannn
12 yo white girl in trouble with SJWs for wearing box braids
http://www.lovebscott.com/news/12-year-old-white-girl-gets-harshly-criticized-for-showing-off-her-blonde-box-braids-on-social-media-photos
“12 yo white girl in trouble with SJWs for wearing box braids”
Perfect example of the overall problem. You aren’t allowed to mock, criticize, or even adopt aspects of what is perceived as a minority or oppressed culture whenever offense is claimed. It’s almost the inevitable authoritarian outcome of the shift from melting pot to salad bowl. Multiculturalism taken to the extreme.
And it is deeply racist.
It segregates and infantilizes minority cultures.
It says “keep them separate, cuz they are special and in need of special protection”
Reminds me of how the KKK just “want the races to be separate”
In fact, culture and acceptance as a whole is improved if ideas go mainstream. Wider cultural acceptance is “win”. Segregation destroys that.
And I am sure that you culturally appropriated salads from someone, you sh*tlord you!
I hope you feel guilt every time you mix vegetables in a bowl!!?!!111
“It segregates and infantilizes minority cultures.”
And it fosters an us vs. them mentality. We encourage minorities, and immigrants to adopt our customs, and cultural practices because it builds unity, and shows respect for our culture, but when the majority shows similar respect, and tries to adopt their customs, and culture they’re racists. The girl with the box braids, or Nicky Hilton didn’t do their hair or dress as they did because they’re racists, they did it because they appreciate the look, and by implication the culture.